Quotes About Cultural norms

?piewanie by?o niegodne m??czyzny.

Stryj Haakani kazaÅ' babie by? cicho, co powinno by? gÅ'ównÄ… rolÄ… kobiet na tym padole Å'ez, zwÅ'aszcza w obecnoÅ›ci m??czyzn.

Na pocz?tku cz?sto z Niil? dyskutowali?my, czy nasze granie mo?na uzna? za knapsu. S?owo jest tornedalsko-fi?skie i oznacza "babski", zatem co?, czym zajmuj? si? tylko kobiety. Mo?na by powiedzie?, ?e rola m??czyzn w Tornedalen ogranicza si? tylko do jednego: nie by? knapsu.

Society doesn't have values. People have values.

The world judges girls harshly for improprieties--and even accidents. It's wrong, but it is the way this sinful world works.

Parents weren't supposed to praise their children, she knew this—it would only invite disaster.

this isn't the land of appropriate—this is Hollywood, baby. Out here, a dark-skinned woman's traditional hair color is honey blond. A hip white woman's natural hair is gray-lavender.

Et vivre en société c'est vivre en hétérosexualité.

According to polygamy, men are royals and women so loyal.

The famous teaching of turning the other cheek to your enemies is not even suitable for women, because it is far from reality and common sense.

Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.

Zaira didn't know why men and women would need different cleansing supplies, but she used the female set because she liked the pale blue shade of it.

Raised in an era when women were valued for their sexuality, solicitude , and silence, the eighteen year old stood loyally by Arnold's side.

We are modern. We live modern lives. All we demand is that women keep to their allotted areas; a woman is private, while a man is public. The correct mode for a man is speech, while the correct mode for a woman is silence. I've spent a long time proving that this isn't so. I've spent a long time insisting that no one else can tell me when to speak and when to remain silent. So much so that it's hard for me to tell when I want to be quiet.

But consider this: are patriarchies peaceful because men are peaceful? Or do more peaceful societies tend to allow men to rise to the top because they place less value on the capacity for violence? Just asking the question.

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

It's because you're like that that you're still a virgin, you know.

Men live by rules they've made for themselves. And among those rules is one specifying that women are merely commodities for men to possess. A daughter belongs to her father, a wife to her husband. A woman's own desires present obstacles for men and are best ignored.

She replied that it was precisely men well versed in religion who beat their wives. The precepts of religion permitted such punishment. A virtuous woman was not supposed to complain about her husband. Her duty was perfect obedience.

I was like a woman walking through an enchanted world to which she did not belong. She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

She isn't stupid. She's intelligent enough in a purely feminine way. Eighteenth-century France would have been a marvellous setting for her, or the old South if she hadn't made the mistake of being born a Negro.

Eu acho o seguinte: a mulher deve casar... O homem, não. —

The shame attached to rape was men's shame, shame they were too weak to carry: that their gender could do this, that they could do it, that they wanted to do it, that they could not protect their wives and sisters and daughters from it, that they could not stop it. That a thing they believed to be solely theirs could be taken by another man. That, should a child be born, the cuckold would be left to raise another man's bastard.

universal features shared by all musics. The very word 'universal' should put us on our guard: as the postcolonial scholar Homi Bhabha says, 'universalism…masks ethnocentric norms, values, and interests'.